Power conversion efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit in a ferroelectric insulator

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 611-616

  Spanier, Jonathan E ^a,b   Fridkin, Vladimir M ^b,c   Rappe, Andrew M ^d   Akbashev, Andrew R ^a   Polemi, Alessia ^a   Qi, Yubo ^d   Gu, Zongquan ^a   Young, Steve M ^e   Hawley, Christopher J ^a   Imbrenda, Dominic ^a   Xiao, Geoffrey ^a   Bennett Jackson, Andrew L ^a   Johnson, Craig L ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; FERROELECTRICITY; HOT ELECTRONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CARRIER SEPARATION; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; NON-EQUILIBRIUM ELECTRONS; PHOTOGENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SUN ILLUMINATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84981244714     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.143     Document Type: Article

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